Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

The 18th James Bond film, starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin, Teri Hatcher as Paris Carver, and Jonathan Pryce as the megalomaniac villain, Elliott Carver. With Ricky Jay, Joe Don Baker. Also Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle and Samantha Bond, all later of Downton Abbey

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Written by Bruce Feirstein. Theme song by Sheryl Crow.

Budget: $110 million. Opening dates: UK December 12, 1997; US December 19, 1997.

Info and Reviews

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Articles

• Why Are We Fascinated With James Bond? (Dec. 24 1997)
• Move Over Sean Connery, Brosnan Is Bond (Dec. 16 1997)
• Bond and language of lust (Dec. 10 1997)
• Brosnan best James Bond since Connery, stars say (Dec. 8 1997)
• Brosnan likes Tomorrow Never Dies better than GoldenEye (Oct. 1997)
• James Bond gets new modern villain (Nov. 27 1997)
• Brosnan denies rumors of trouble on set (July 24 1997)
• Shaking up the formula (July 23 1997)
• Bond goes down a bomb in Brent Cross (June 17 1997)
• With 18 films behind him, will 007 be around the next century? (June 20 1997)



• Much more than just a Bond girl (May 30 1997)
• Feuding leading to end of Bond?? (May 27 1997)
• Yeoh won't be doing stunts, even though she wants to (May 21 1997)
• James Bond succumbs to soaring Thai heat (May 15 1997)
• Pierce Brosnan Foils Traffic (May 15 1997)
• Brosnan wants fewer stunts (April 25 1997)
• New Bond Shaken And Badly Stirred (April 25 1997)
• Sabotaged by Chinese? (March 10 1997)
• Bond girl Yeoh gets licence to thrill 007 (Feb 11 1997)
• Latest Bond Production Shaken, Stirred (Dec. 8 1996)

Product placement

• Promotion of the Year Award for Excellence in Marketing Granted to MGM/UA for TND (June 24 1998)
• Cross-marketing of products and movies peaks with 007 (Dec. 3 1997)
• James Bond Saves The World With Mobile Phone (Nov. 25 1997)
• Watch Out! Bond Is Licensed To Sell (June 23 1997)
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